ABSTRACT
In the broad area of genocide, the most important contribution made by the General Assembly was the passage of the Convention on Genocide in 1948. After the Cold War, however, the record of the international community preventing genocide was even worse, despite the fact, paradoxically, that the United Nations engaged in more acts of humanitarian intervention throughout the 1990s and early 2000s than at any other time in history. The central idea behind the mass rapes was thus to weaken the fabric of the Bosniaks as a group, and, in that sense, mass rape was part of a genocidal campaign. The genocide in Bosnia, though probably the most closely reported in history, was yet another case of international inaction in the face of massive human rights violations. Instrumental in preparing the Hutu population for the genocide to follow was the creation of anti-Tutsi militias.
